Talking with Mari Lowe

The debut novelist delves into the complicated themes of lasting grief and difficult friendships woven through her darkly magical middle-grade book about a girl living in an Orthodox Jewish community.

Kay Weisman

BOOKS AND AUTHORS Grades 4 to 8 Talking with Mari Lowe The debut novelist delves into the complicated themes of lasting grief and difficult friendships woven through her darkly magical middle-grade book about a girl living in an Orthodox Jewish community. By Kay Weisman Since the death of her father several years ago, Aviva and her mother have lived in rooms above the mikvah—a ritual bath located in a building next door to their temple. They manage financially (although just barely), aided discreetly by other community members, but Aviva is troubled by the mikvah’s dybbuk, a malicious creature only she can see, that wreaks havoc all around them. Debut novelist Lowe deftly handles many themes in this book: dealing with grief, mending frayed friendships, and living everyday life in a…

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